I don't see how you can have NPOV without Verifiability - surely by presenting a dispute or provide critical analysis or whatever by showing what other people have said about it you are inherently requiring that these statements be verifiable, no? Unless of course the Russian Wikipedia's concept of what NPOV means is different to the English Wikipedia's, which from "And furthermore, to create the ideal article, we need to study the actual thing, not stories about it in 'authoritative sources'" they quite possibly do.
adam
Kirill Lokshin wrote:
It's a bit too long to translate entirely (and some of it seems to be people settling personal scores -- oppose because so-and-so supports and that sort of thing), but here's a sampling of the opposes:
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"The assertion that verifiability is more important than truth seems disputable. And furthermore, to create the ideal article, we need to study the actual thing, not stories about it in 'authoritative sources'" -- Fred